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/æksˈɛntʃueɪt/ Listen

verb

Accentuate v. t. (past & past part. accentuated; pres. part. accentuating)

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. "In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated."

To mark with the written accent.

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Etymology of 'Accentuate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accentuate" Quotes from Famous Books

... French field guns. They were cleverly concealed in an artificial fence line carefully constructed in all its details along the hilltop. Fence posts had been erected and the artillerymen had also set up the trees, vines, and underbrush which normally follow and accentuate the boundaries between fields. The day was so windy and rainy that we had no fear of being observed by German aeroplanes, and therefore stood tranquilly behind the guns and talked ...

— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood

... that at that instant the dim lights seemed to grow less, and finally to disappear—all save the tiny points that marked the outline of the great Cross high overhead. These only gave light enough to accentuate the gloom. The hand that held mine now released it, and with a sigh I realized that I was alone. After a few moments more of the groaning of the winch and clanking of the chain there was a sharp sound of stone meeting stone; then there was silence. I listened acutely, but could ...

— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker

... by way of apology and never use such expressions as "In my opinion," "As far as I can see," "It appears to me," "I believe," etc. In what you write, the whole composition is expressive of your views, since you are the author, therefore, there is no necessity for you to accentuate or emphasize yourself at certain ...

— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin

... before preparing to sink into a snow-white cloud-bank; and as it did so it bathed the ears of grain around me in radiance and caused the cornflowers to seem the darker by comparison; and the stillness, the herald of night, to accentuate more than ever the ...

— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... wound anew and for the last time, the aspect of the group on the cliff had changed. It had grown eerie, indistinct. The pines and firs showed no longer their sempervirent green, but were black amid the white tufted lines on their branches, that still served to accentuate their symmetry. The vale had disappeared in a sinister abyss of gloom, though Kennedy would not look down at its menace, but upward, always upward. Thus he saw, like some radiant and splendid star, the first torch ...

— The Christmas Miracle - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

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